The team of the leader of the Russian opposition, Alexey Navalnyserving an eight-year sentence, testified this Thursday fear of poisoning the politicianbecause she lost eight pounds of weight.
“We do not exclude that they are currently slowly poisoning Navalni. “They’re killing him little by little so he doesn’t get much attention,” said Kira Yarsmish, opposition spokesperson and one of her closest collaborators, in a video she shared on Twitter.
He recalled that the prison administration in the Vladimir region, where Navalny is located, had to call the police. ambulance due to aggravation of a “mysterious stomach ailment”.
“During the last fifteen days of his precautionary detention, Navalni has lost eight kilograms. They do not offer him any medical assistance,” he stressed.
The activist, who said her mother’s medicines never got to her destination, said she suffered similar pain after prison doctors prescribed antibiotics last January, after which she lost nearly seven kilograms.
poor health
Navalni, despite his precarious state of health, special punishment cell In Vladimir prison number 6, about 200 kilometers from Moscow.
Likewise, the opponent’s lawyer, Vadim Kobzev, assured that after his client was poisoned with Novichok three years ago, any deterioration in his health should be taken very seriously.
“We will demand toxicological and radiological tests”He said it on Telegram.
Earlier, Kovzen had accused Russian prison authorities of “having a clear strategy to destroy Navalny’s health with all the power and means at his disposal”.
In mid-January, Navalni was examined by a doctor after hundreds of doctors denounced his dangerous health condition in an open letter to the president. Vladimir Putin.
His co-religionists tied Navalni’s deportation to his prison cell first to an Oscar nomination for a documentary about his life, which would later win the prize collected by his wife Yulia, who requested his release.
The 46-year-old dissident, who received the Sakharov Prize from the European Parliament last year, thinks this is the purpose of prison services.The sick prisoner has no choice but to cooperate.
Russian Justice rejected the appeal made by Navalni’s lawyers in November and upheld his prison sentence for fraud and humiliation.